Paulo Coelho Quotes

Everything on Earth is being continuously transformed.

When everything seems to be going well and your dream is almost within your gasp, that is when you must be more alert than ever.

The warrior of the light has a destiny to fulfill.

Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.

Impossible is just an opinion.

Love will never separate a man from his personal legend.

You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.

Love creates bridges where it would seem they were impossible.

Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.

When things start to happen, and the path does reveal itself to us, we become afraid of carrying on

The moment we set off in search of love, it sets off in search of us. And saves us.

If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.

Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.

Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.

To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges.

Changes happen when we go against everything we're used to doing.

The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

You must always know what it is that you want.

If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one.

When there is no turning back, then we should concern ourselves only with the best way of going forward.

I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.

A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.

Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs.

Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked. "Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.

He does not keep company with those who wish to harm him.

Love is a complicated path, and that path can lead us up to heaven or hurl us down into hell.

The magic moment is the moment when a 'yes' or a 'no' can change our whole existence.

A Warrior never accepts what is unacceptable.

Each moment spent searching is also a moment spent finding.

Don't think about what you've left behind... everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive . and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us.

Dreams cannot be tamed. Dreamers cannot be ruled.

They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.

Judging yourself to be full of virtue paralyses. Judging yourself to be full of guilt also paralyses.

The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others.

I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.

Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

We can sell our time, but we can't buy it back.

Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us.

Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.

Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.

That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.

Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory.

A warrior balances solitude and dependence.

But he keeps his heart free of any feelings of hatred.

Feelings should always be allowed to be free. You should not judge a future love by past suffering.

God hides the fires of hell within paradise.